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Title: The Portable Coach : 28 Sure Fire Strategies For Business And Personal Success by Thomas J. Leonard, Byron Larson ISBN: 0-684-85041-9 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 06 August, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Dramatic, life changing coaching tools that are easy to use!
Comment: The Portable Coach packs the essence of the latest coaching technology into a compact and easily understood book. The tools provided are dramatic and life changing and are highlighted with real-life examples. The format is very pleasing with appropriate and memorable quotes, distinctions that clarify the language, top ten lists that provide practical answers, and the assessment tests that help you know where to start in using the tools to improve the quality of your life. Wow! a great package. I am using the book daily in my life and with my clients.
Rating: 3
Summary: Kids, don't try this at home
Comment: While I think much of what Leonard has to say is worthwhile and valid, this book is a poor substitute for a "personal coach" for two reasons:
(1) There's no reality check if you do it on your own. I knew a guy who decided that, at age 28, he was too young to be saddled with his heavy responsibilities when there was a whole world out there for him to explore, so he told his wife he wanted a divorce. He'd talked her out of pursuing her own career plans after college, and convinced her to become a full-time wife and mother, and now she was on her own with 3 kids to raise. But he was sure that he was practicing "positive selfishness"!
(2) Most of us don't need someone to tell us what we OUGHT to be doing, so much as an objective outsider who'll help us put it all into perspective and suggest areas in which we can make small, realistic changes that greatly improve our lives. I got tired just reading his "Extreme Self-Care" section, let alone trying to do everything he suggests! (It reminded me of that classic "Dilbert" cartoon in which Dogbert the counselor asks what the participants learned in his workshop, and Alice says, "I learned to listen with my heart. I understand Sanskrit. I got my ham radio license ... ")
Rating: 5
Summary: Thomas Leonard is not for everyone, but...
Comment: If you can get through the first chapter on "selfishness," this book really does have a lot to offer. Using charged words like "become incredibly selfish" and absolutes like "tolerate nothing" was an integral part of Leonard's in-your-face, we-don't-have-time-for-you-not-to-get-this style. So many of us in the professional coaching industry have been touched by Leonard. We owe him a big debt of gratitude for making the profession of "coaching" the big opportunity it is for us today. This book is a good legacy to the man, as well as to what he thought was important for us to understand in our lives and in the lives of our clients.
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